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Tagging Features

Most features can be tagged in accordance with international OSM conventions. Many of these have their origins in UK map features and will be quite applicable to Ireland.

Highway

Roads should be tagged in accordance with their official classification (usually) or their importance for traffic if unclassified. The tagging scheme presented here was chosen to match the usage of these same tags on UK roads and in the interests of useful presentation on rendered maps.

The link roads (sliproads / ramps) leading to and from a motorway (or between two motorways). Only use this on slip roads to which motorway regulations apply (the "last escape" slip road before a road becomes motorway is not a motorway_link and should be tagged as a trunk_link or primary_link as appropriate to the non-motorway road it diverges from)

Local roads whose importance for through traffic is quite high. This can be the case both in urban and rural areas. Where the local road number is known, tertiary should always be used for roads numbered from L1000-L4999 ("Local Primary" roads).

Local roads that are not significant for routing. Where a road number is known, this tag should always be used for L9000-L99999 ("Local Tertiary" roads). It should generally also be used for L5000-L8999 ("Local Secondary" roads), but where a road in this range seems important for routing you may wish to tag it as tertiary. (We need to get better information about this number range)Note: This is not a marker for roads where we still need to choose a highway tag (use "highway=road" for that).

A roadway providing connections to off-road destinations (such as car parks) or servicing private sites (such as industrial estates). Tagging a road as "service" indicates that the roadway should not be considered a through route nor expected to be of high quality.

This attribute is not existing in the mapped area (e.g. no petrol station existing).

Suitable for use

Please update as needed

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This table is a wiki template with a default description in English. Editable here.

Progress Detail

Guidance on updating the progress tables:

Name If your motorway isn't listed, add a new row for it.

Carriageways In the carriageways columns enter a rough estimate of the percentage complete for each carriageway. (Some motorways may have been drawn initially as a single carriageway in which case enter 100% in column 1 and 0% in column 2).

Junctions - Total Enter a rough count of the number of junctions. Taking the highest junction number is a good enough approximation.

Junctions - Count Enter a count of the number of junctions that have been mapped.

Last Update Each time you update the table replace the contents of this column with ~~~~ which will automatically insert your user name and a date/time stamp.